# elm-mcp

> MCP server for IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) via OSLC REST API

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/elm-mcp/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.4.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: doors-next, elm, etm, jazz, mcp, oslc, rtc
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:elm-mcp

### Description (declared)

<h1 align="center">elm-mcp</h1>

<p align="center"><strong>Bring IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management to your AI agent.</strong><br>
An MCP server that reads and writes requirements, work items and test cases in IBM ELM
over the open OSLC REST protocol — so an agent can work the ALM as a first-class tool.</p>

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://pypi.org/project/elm-mcp/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/elm-mcp" alt="PyPI"></a>
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%2B-blue" alt="Python 3.10+">
  <a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-blue.svg" alt="License: MIT"></a>
  <a href="https://github.com/filhocf/elm-mcp/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://github.com/filhocf/elm-mcp/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg" alt="CI"></a>
</p>

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**elm-mcp** exposes IBM ELM's three OSLC domains — **DOORS Next (RM)**, **EWM/RTC (CCM)** and
**ETM (QM)** — as MCP tools. An AI assistant (Kiro, Claude, OpenCode, Hermes, …) can then list
projects, query and create requirements, work items and test cases, and move them through their
workflow, without a human clicking through the Jazz web UI.

It is an **independent implementation** over the open [OSLC](https://open-services.net/) REST
protocol — **not a fork** of IBM software, and it does **not** bundle any IBM client library.
The package is **vendor-neutral**: no organization-specific host, project or namespace is baked in;
those come from your own configuration at runtime.

## Why

ALM tools like IBM ELM hold the official record — requirements, backlog, tests, traceability — but
they live behind a web UI and OSLC APIs that an agent cannot use out of the box. elm-mcp is the
bridge: it lets an agentic workflow read context from the ALM and write artifacts back to it, over
the Model Context Protocol, so the agent and the traditional process share one source of truth.

## Install

Run it with [`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) — no clone, no manual virtualenv:

```bash
uvx e…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/elm-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T14:33:00.205Z)

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